To help students learn to recognize common organic functional groups when given chemical formulas and names, students can use an organic chemistry functional group playing card deck to play any card ...

Amino acids are the individual building blocks of proteins and are essential for biological systems to work properly. There are 20 standard amino acids that make up proteins in all living systems, ...

Researchers have engineered bacteria to synthesize an amino acid that contains a rare functional group that others have shown to have implications in the regulation of our immune system. The ...

De-Wei Gao's research group at ShanghaiTech University has developed a new method for efficient and highly selective ...

Researchers have found a way to precisely control contaminants in nanopores that would ultimately benefit desalination techniques, carbon dioxide storage and porous catalysts. (Nanowerk News) Natural ...

In this study, the researchers focused on para-nitro-L-phenylalanine (pN-Phe), a non-standard amino acid that is neither one of the twenty standard amino acids nor been observed in nature. pN-Phe has ...